"Heinrich von Ofterdingen": The Origin of the Creative Reception of the "Wartburgkrieg" in Romanticism
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The aim of this article is to uncover the underlying motivations which led Novalis to choose the name of the medieval poet Heinrich von Ofterdingen as the title and main character of his novel and to analyze the role the medieval collection of poems The Wartburgkrieg, whose protagonist is Heinrich von Ofterdingen, plays in this choice. The article also examines how the choice of the above mentioned character, with which Novalis seeks to evoke the Middle Ages in the minds of his readers, marks the origin of the creative reception of the Wartburgkrieg poems in Romanticism
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